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• On the post: California Makes A Move To Further Separate The Public From Its Public Records

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 09:11pm

  If this was just to offset the costs, they could simply buy the clerks some stopwatches and charge by the minute. That would be easier to tie into the costs involved, and the charges would be much less discouraging to the public that wanted to do searches.
  
  Of course, if the intent to get the government more income without raising taxes... Well, like Jim Ewert said, "[I]f it's adopted there is going to be very little additional funding, because people just aren't going to make the request", but I guess hope springs eternal.

• On the post: Researcher Tries To Connect Violence And Video Games During Murder Trial; Gets Destroyed During Cross Examination

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 04:02pm

  He pointed out that Dillen ... was prone to "emotional outbursts."

  A teenager prone to emotional outbursts. Well, clearly this must be because of nefarious outside influences.

• On the post: New Filing Presents Evidence That John Steele Uploaded Videos To BitTorrent Himself

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 05:50pm

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  I agree with Franklin G Ryzzo that it isn't entrapment. It'd be like if you put a table on the sidewalk in front of your house, put a bunch of jewelry/books/whatever on it, put up a sign saying "Free stuff"... and then accused anyone who took anything of theft. It's not entrapment because what those people did wasn't a crime.

• On the post: New Filing Presents Evidence That John Steele Uploaded Videos To BitTorrent Himself

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 05:43pm

  Re: Funny

  Maybe he'll try to claim that an IP address can only be used to identify downloaders, and can't be used to identify uploaders? It seems like the sort of thing the Prendateers might say.

• On the post: New Filing Presents Evidence That John Steele Uploaded Videos To BitTorrent Himself

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 05:37pm

  Re: Re: Literal LOL

  Reading through those tweets, I sometimes thought "this has to be someone pretending to be Steele. I mean, he can't really be that stupid". But since I don't know him personally, maybe he is that stupid.

• On the post: British Politicians: There's Child Porn On The Internet And Google Needs To Do Something About It

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 06:05pm

  John Carr (adviser on internet safety and secretary of a children?s charities coalition): ?Google can do more and should do more.?

  Technically, this is true. Google could hire more humans to try to identify more such material. They could hire an army of such people, and army so big that their profit margin would drop to zero. The questions are:
  
  1) How much should a private company be required by law to do?
  
  2) What sort of measurement do you use to determine if what a company is doing enough? If the answer is "no illegal porn at all", that would force search engines to stop using web crawlers/spiders and instead manually review each website before including it. And force them to not include sites with user provided content.

• On the post: John Steele's Claims About Alan Cooper Contradicted By History

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 09:38pm

  Judicial estoppel

  Quoting from Wikipedia:

  Although, in the United States, it is only a part of common law and therefore not sharply defined, it is generally agreed that it can only be cited if the party in question successfully maintained its position in the earlier proceedings and benefited from it. [emphasis added]

  Have Steele and friends actually benefitted in a court case from anything they've told the court?

• On the post: CBS Tells Court: No One Could Possibly Read Our Statements 'We Will Sue Aereo' To Mean We Will Sue Aereo

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 05:52pm

  If I recall correctly, Charles Carreon did something similar: Carreon threatened to sue, the threatened person sued for declaratory judgment, and in return Carreon implied that he'd changed his mind about suing so there was no point to a declaratory judgment.

• On the post: Prenda Continues Character Assassination Of Alan Cooper

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 08:42pm

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  I'm sure that Steele, out of the kindness of his heart, didn't file any charges against his good friend Alan Cooper. I'm equally sure that, since Steele isn't concerned with such trifles as money, that he didn't file any insurance claims over the destroyed/stolen property.

• On the post: Prenda Continues Character Assassination Of Alan Cooper

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 06:43pm

  Those statements about "how's my porn company doing?" came out in that earlier filing, but many people noted that if Cooper was actually running the company, that's not the kind of question he would ask, so it only served to raise more questions about Prenda/Steele's involvement. So, in this filing, they try to work around that by claiming that Cooper wasn't talking about AF Holdings, but about a different company Steele was supposedly going to set up for him, but that never actually happened.

  Of course, Steele just happened to forget that important detail the first time around.

• On the post: Another Court Tells Prenda To Pay Up On Attorneys Fees

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 04:59pm

  So, it sounds like Lutz should pay this one...

  But that's taking food from the mouth's of Lutz's non-existent children!

• On the post: First Hand Account Of Judicial Smackdown Of Prenda In Minnesota

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 04:42pm

  It's legaltainment

  Some people find legal shenanigans by lawyers to be entertaining. Just look at all of the people who follow Ken White's coverage of the Prenda story; most of them aren't involved in the whole copyright-pirate thing. And personally, I was endlessly entertained by the whole SCO v Linux reporting that Groklaw did.

• On the post: First Hand Account Of Judicial Smackdown Of Prenda In Minnesota

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 04:38pm

  Denied due process?

  Denied due process? Prenda and friends had lawyers at the same hearing the Cooper attended, and those lawyers could have cross examined him.

• On the post: First Hand Account Of Judicial Smackdown Of Prenda In Minnesota

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 04:44pm

  Denied due process?

  At the hearing before Judge Wright at which Cooper was present, Prenda and friends were represented by at least one lawyer. Those lawyers could have cross examined Cooper then. So how was Prenda's due process denied?

• On the post: Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Asks Appeals Court To Delay Sanctions; Appeals Court Says 'No, Try Again'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 May, 2013 @ 02:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "Is this the judge's job? Or is this the job of the defense? If the judge felt there was fraud here,"
  
  Lawyers are officers of the court. It's the judge's job to investigate if he thinks that the lawyers aren't behaving as officers of the court should, and to impose sanctions if he thinks they broke the rules. In this case, the fraud involved lying to the court, so it's exactly the sort of fraud the judge should be concerned with.

• On the post: Bad Day For Prenda Continues: Judge Rejects Stay, Adds $1k Per Day For Each Day They Don't Pay Up

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 May, 2013 @ 04:31pm

  IT IS SO ORDERED.

  Make it so, Number One.

• On the post: Angry Judge Tells Prenda To Stop Falsifying Alan Cooper's Signature; Calls It Fraud

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 May, 2013 @ 03:07pm

  Wow, it's amazing how many judges are anti-copyright!

• On the post: Judge Wright Tells Team Prenda To Pay $80k, Refers Their Activity To State Bars, Feds & IRS

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 07:12pm

  Re:

  Now what am I gonna do?

  Pray really hard that Prenda appeals?

• On the post: Bus Company Threatens Redditor With Lawsuit, Meets Ken White, Runs Away

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 02 May, 2013 @ 10:54pm

  Re:

  Also I'm not like Batman. Batman is awesome. At best I'm, like, Aquaman.

  Don't screw with Aqua Man, dude. He'll fuck your shit up.

• On the post: Gawker Defies Judge, Refuses To Take Down Post About Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Despite Court Order

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 08:59pm

  Up until just now, my eyes kept sliding over the "Hogan" after "Hulk", and I thought the whole thing had to do with the Incredible Hulk. And now I'm kinda disappointed.

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